6.1 - The Story So Far

The goal up until this point so far is to establish a trend in Midwest beliefs, history, and economy that establishes a consistent and ripe for picking location for developing trends in real estate, specifically residential, with increased urbanization as a means to project the future of the landscape into rural developments. We have established that there are pressures for development from each side of the outer ring - industrialization freeing up farmland as small scale farming ventures are absorbed and released and millennial and minorities in search of affordable land that is still commutable to the major metropolitan. We have identified the moving trends of suburbs through America’s history and come to the conclusion that things are not in fact strictly urbanizing and densifying, but the want for land and property to make into each own’s is a popular trend in homeownership and is continuing to rise. Then we established what this preliminary development looks like in terms of the landscape, parallelization, and piecemeal construction methods with acknowledgment of the Jeffersonian grid. Identifying both the causes of residual farmland then the effects of it as seen from above. Finally, we call into play the work of other’s in order to situate the argument within a larger context and allude to foundations in theory that would be expanded upon in future iterations.

All caught up? Now what?